March 21, 2012

“I think that right now the greatest possibility is that it is some sort of natural phenomenon. I think that it’s a possibility that there is some earth shifting going on underneath the ground that creates those popping sort of exploding popping or vibrating noises that people feel,” City Administrator Lisa Kuss said.

My guess: It's nothing. The town is called Clintonville, for what it's worth.

They have recorded this with seismic sensors, for what it's worth. So it's definitely something. The only theory I've heard so far is that rapid thawing of frozen ground is causing subterraneous rock fractures.

You guys are all off. If the thumpers going off outside town weren't enough of a clue, the stilsuits they sell down at the Family Dollar on North Main should have been a dead giveaway. It's quite obvious that Shai Hulud has taking a liking to cheddar.

This week's Mexican earthquake has been recategorized as a "temblor" from the earlier, and probably erroneous category of "tremblor", up till recently being the go-to earthquake descriptor of working geophysicists, which itself had replaced the much earlier but far less evocative "tremor".

I can only guess why in Wisconsin these are called "trembles", perhaps it's proximity to the Canadian Shield, or perhaps it's the way the cheese vibrates on the shelf.

The geologist at UW were contacted about this and one told me that there was seismic activity in the area, but they can not be sure about it because they do not have a sensor near the site and are relying on others in the state.

Oliver Stone says that the proof of a conspiracy is that there is no evidence of it. Get it....the conspiracy is so vast, that all evidence of it is erased. I think that is what is going on in Clintonville. Prove that logic wrong.

If it were NYC or Las Vegas, I'd say it's the Tunnel People, also aka Mole People. Barring that, call Coast to Coast am, I'm sure host Geo. Norey has an answer--or can hustle one up from his vast call-in audience and attendant various on-call investigative "experts." Come to think of it, the Mole people were one of Art Bell's specialties, iirc. lol

I mentioned this yesterday in the post about the Mexico earthquake. Another possibility is someone is doing some free-lance metal stamping in an area not zoned for heavy industrial. Knocks off a few pieces, then shuts down until everyone goes back to bed, the starts up again. Years ago we had a guy doing some heavy duty welding on race cars in his garage. Constant light flickering & TV interference (this was pre-cable days) within several block radius.

When we experience mysterious booms and trembles, we just think that another 'meth-house' exploded. Forty years ago, we'd have thought revenuers were blowing-up 'moonshine stills' again. Different generation, same people.

Typical. No good scientist would speculate about an "event" like this without access to some firsthand data beforehand. (I'm putting "event" within quotes because there's a likelihood that these booms are not an event at all.) The good scientist refuses to guess, and the journalist concludes that he's baffled. Hummph!

Even a strong earthquake is effectively silent; the vibrations have tremendous amplitude but are generally in the infrasonic frequency band, below the range of human hearing. If you're in a earthquake and you hear booms or rumbles it's stuff falling, walls cracking, or pavement buckling.

Some researchers have wondered if elephants, believed to use infrasonics to signal each other over long distances, might be able to use their abilities to detect pre-quake seismic tremors. So far the evidence of such an ability is largely anecdotal.

Since I'm not a scientist I'll venture a guess without any hard data analysis: It's March, a notably windy month. Go outside anywhere and give a listen. You'll hear booms and rumbles. Use a microphone and amplifier and you'll hear even more booms and rumbles. Normally we ignore these spurious sounds because we know they're normal perceptive effects caused by the wind and not evidence of explosions or earthquakes. However, if you've been pre-conditioned by the likes of Art Bell and George Noory to believe in Fortean stuff and the "unexplained" generally...

Years ago we had a guy doing some heavy duty welding on race cars in his garage. Constant light flickering & TV interference (this was pre-cable days) within several block radius.

You don't do heavy duty welding on a race car. On a ship, yeah. On a car , not so much.I have a Miller 250 square wave and if I'm welding DC as soon as I put tungsten to metal all the smoke detectors go off.